Ramgopal Agarwala

Ramgopal Agarwala is currently Chairman of Pahle India Foundation, an NGO whose tagline is: Putting India first to make India first. He retired as Distinguished Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) a Delhi-based think tank under the auspices of Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Professor Agarwala was awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship for studies in the UK where he completed his PhD in econometrics with his thesis published as An Econometric...See more

Ramgopal Agarwala is currently Chairman of Pahle India Foundation, an NGO whose tagline is: Putting India first to make India first. He retired as Distinguished Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) a Delhi-based think tank under the auspices of Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Professor Agarwala was awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship for studies in the UK where he completed his PhD in econometrics with his thesis published as An Econometric Model of India in 1970. He was a lead player in building macro-models of the British economy under London Business School (1966 69) and of Canadian economy under Economic Council of Canada (1969 71). After joining the World Bank in 1971, he did macro-models for several countries such as Kenya, Bangladesh, Botswana (1971 80), and was a lead player for World Bank s World Development Report of 1983. Professor Agarwala also developed economic reports on Sub-Saharan Africa and China during 1980s and 1990s. He has authored/edited the following titles: An Econometric Model of India, 1948 49 to 1960 61 The Rise of China: Threat or Opportunity? Reforms, Labour Markets, and Social Security in India (co-edited with Nagesh Kumar and Michelle Riboud) See less